A local family have recently returned home after spending just under a year at the Edinburgh Sick Kids.
Stacey Nicol told Edinburgh Live how she spent 358 days at the hospital's Ronald McDonald House so she could be at her infant son's bedside after he was born at 24 weeks old. With her first pregnancy going smoothly, the 25-year-old shared how things took a sudden turn for the worst after she suffered an infection which caused her to enter early labour.
Describing the ordeal as "terrifying and scary", Stacey's son Sebastian was due to be born on August 23, 2021, but Stacey gave birth to him at 24 weeks on 15 May, 2021. Weighing in at just 670g, the tiny baby was rushed into intensive care at the Sick Kids where he was put on a ventilator, with Stacey unable to see him for four hours.
